Tata Motors is incorporating some changes in the Nano for a relaunch and its former chairman Ratan Tata thinks the small car can still take off in the home market.
“A re-launched Nano with some of the differences that we’re trying to incorporate, yes I do,” said Tata in an interview on CNBC’s Managing Asia programme.
Tata said the company has plans to launch the Nano outside of the Indian market, but did not give a timeframe for that.
Recently-retired Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar today said he was not too comfortable with the idea of having a computer in the dressing room but came to accept the device after realising how important an aid it was to plan and strategise better.
Investigative website Cobrapost today alleged that IT companies are misusing social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to artificially boost politicians popularity and malign their rivals, with many firms claiming to be working for BJP and Narendra Modi.
The sting, Operation Blue Virus, claims to have exposed about two dozen little known IT firms across the country, which in the garb of providing reputation management services on social media, also offer fake fan following and posting defamatory content using IP addresses of others by hacking into them.
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets ended Friday’s trade 257 points or 1.25 percent up ahead of the national growth data release coupled with healthy buying across major bluechip firms.
Good buying was observed in all sectoral indices, especially in bank, capital goods, metal, oil and gas and public sector undertakings (PSUs) sectors.
The 30-scrip S&P Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 20,558.93 points, closed at 20,791.93 points, up 257.02 points or 1.25 percent from its previous day’s close at 20,534.91 points.
Activists of the Bharatiya Yuva Morcha gathered at the Dabolim Airport in Panaji on Friday to protest against Tarun Tejpal, the founder editor of the Tehelka magazine and newspaper for his role in a sexual harassment case.
Shouting anti-Tejpal slogans and waving placards that said “Welcome to Panjim Tarun Tejpal and the courts” the BYM activists demanded that he be arrested as soon as he lands in the state, whioch is a short while from now.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will meet Afghanistani President Hamid Karzai on Saturday to revive the stalled peace process with the Taliban.
The visit comes a week after Sharif met a peace delegation from the Afghan High Peace Council, which is tasked with opening negotiations with Taliban insurgents, Dawn News reports.
Karzai has, meanwhile, delayed signing a security pact with Washington that could allow a handful of U.S. troops to stay back post-2014 for training and counter-terror purposes.
A revelation of an affair is a devastating blow to any relationship, but when the cheater blames their partner for creating a situation that “made them” vulnerable to the affair, that usually puts the shock and hurt over the top, an expert has revealed.
Sheri Meyers, author of Chatting or Cheating, has suggested that when cheating happens, both partners must take a serious look at their own responsibility and contribution to the downfall of their relationship, the Huffington Post reported.
Meyers has listed out few reasons why most cheaters say they strayed.
The two major internal challenges in front of Pakistan’s new chief of army staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif will be to continue the culture of non-interference in civilian affairs and fighting terrorism, the US media reported.
General Sharif will also face several external challenges, including withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan next year and the continued criticism of CIA drone strikes inside Pakistan, Dawn News reports.
Justice A K Ganguly, former judge of the Supreme Court, believed to have been accused by a law intern of sexual harassment, has recorded a statement before the three-judge committee, which has submitted its report.
The Committee headed by Justice R M Lodha submitted the report on Thursday after recording the statement of Justice Ganguly, who is now heading the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, an apex court official said on Friday.
Rejecting “insinuations” that her complaint is part of a pre-election political conspiracy, the victim of Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal’s alleged sexual assault today said what he did to her “falls within the legal definition of rape”.
In a statement ahead of Tejpal’s journey to Goa to face police questioning, she said she was heartened by the broad support she has received over the past fortnight.
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A young woman was arrested for allegedly attacking a software employee at Bachupalli area here apparently after he married another female, police said on Friday.
Ramya, who was a former classmate of K Pratap while studying diploma course, had earlier complained to Chandanagar police accusing the man of marrying another woman after being in love with her, they said.
A former Tehelka woman journalist who has accused founder-editor Tarun Tejpal of rape Friday urged political parties to refrain from politicizing the issue.
“I call upon our political parties to resist the temptation to turn a very important discussion about gender, power and violence into a conversation about themselves,” she said in a statement here.
She said she was “deeply concerned” and “very disturbed” about suggestions that her complaint against Tejpal was a part of “a pre-election political conspiracy”.
Elaborate steps are being taken to provide tight security to BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi when he reaches here to address a rally Sunday, officials said.
A Gujarat Police team has reached the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have made security arrangements for Modi based on our threat assessment, which is usual for every VVIP addressing public meetings in the state,” a senior official told IANS.
Traffic restrictions have been announced in Jammu city, where Modi will speak at the M.A. Stadium.
Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal has been non-cooperative and has been avoiding the police even though his custodial interrogation was required to investigate the sexual assault case against him, Goa Police said in their written “say” to the Panaji district and sessions court Friday.
The police “say” was filed in response to an anticipatory bail application by Tejpal’s counsel Geeta Luthra earlier in the morning.
Astrophysicists have snapped and mapped 44 million stars in one of the most comprehensive and accurate surveys ever undertaken.
This finding provides two important breakthroughs. First, it gives far more accurate measurements of the brightness of each individual star than had ever previously been possible.
Second, by comparing two photographs of each star taken up to 60 years apart, it becomes easy to identify stars whose brightness has slowly changed, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series reports.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday accused the Congress of placing barriers in the way of Rajasthan’s development, and said the BJP would break this barrier if voted back to power. “The biggest threat to this country is the economically disastrous policies of the current government. The rupee is depreciating and the dollar is appreciating. The country’s treasury is empty due to corruption. The price rise is over the head. Unemployment is troubling the country’s youth and common man,” he said in Jodhpur.
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets surged 232.92 points or 1.13 percent in the pre-noon session Friday.
All the sectors were trading in green and the rally was led by banking index (bankex), metal, public sector undertakings (PSUs), and oil and gas sectors.
The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 20,558.93 points, was trading at 20,767.83 points in the pre-noon session, up 232.92 points or 1.13 percent from the previous day’s close at 20,534.91 points.
Researchers have suggested that breast cancer growth can be fuelled by high cholesterol, as a by-product of cholesterol functions like the hormone estrogen to enhance the growth and spread of the disease.
The researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute also found that anti-cholesterol drugs such as statins appear to diminish the effect of this estrogen-like molecule.
General Raheel Sharif formally assumed the command of the Pakistan Army Friday, two days after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif picked him to lead it.
Gen. Raheel succeeds Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who headed the army for six years, reports Xinhua.
Gen. Kayani handed over the command to the new chief at a largely-attended ceremony at the army’s hockey ground at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.
The outgoing army chief handed the “Change of Command baton” over to Gen. Raheel Sharif, who became the country’s 15th army chief.
Hong Kong cricketer Moner Ahmed has been reported for a suspected illegal bowling action.
Ahmed was reported by umpires Michael Gough, S. Ravi, Adrian Holdstock, John Ward and match referee Graeme La Brooy under the ICC Regulations for the Review of Bowlers Reported with Suspected Illegal Bowling Actions following his side’s 29-run victory over Papua-New Guinea in the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier here Thursday.
This is the second time that Ahmed has been reported during the tournament and he is now required to submit to an ICC analysis of his bowling action.
The Netherlands and Hong Kong clinched the final two places among the Associates for the 2014 World Twenty20 to be held in Bangladesh, with emphatic victories.
The Netherlands beat Scotland by eight wickets while Hong Kong defeated Papua New Guinea (PNG) by 29 runs Thursday. The Dutch chased down Scotland’s 147/6 with 13 balls to spare as Hong Kong bounced back after missing the chance to qualify the previous day, when they lost to Nepal.
Three suspected militants have been reportedly killed and several others injured during a US drone strike on a compound in Angar Kalli area in North Waziristan.
Intelligence officials and local sources said that the suspects were killed when two missiles were fired by a US drone on the compound.
According to Dawn, the identity of the militants could not be ascertained as the drone strike was carried out at midnight.
Sources revealed that the drones had been hovering over the area for hours.
A three-member panel that probed the charge of sexual harassment of a young lawyer by a Supreme Court judge has given its report, identifying the judge as A.K. Ganguly, court sources said Friday.
The report was submitted Thursday after the committee of three judges met six times. It is the first the alleged perpetrator has been named.
The report, submitted to Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, also carries the statements of the victim, a young lawyer who had interned in the Supreme Court, and that of the now retired Justice Ganguly, the sources said.
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The CPI(M) has asked the Centre to withdraw its decision to make Aadhaar cards compulsory for providing various benefits like cooking gas subsidy to people.
A resolution adopted by the state plenum of the CPI(M) here yesterday alleged that Aadhaar had been made compulsory by the Centre without having the backing of any parliamentary legislation and in disregard to the repeated rulings of the Supreme Court on the issue.
The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the central government and the Press Council of India on a plea for setting up an independent mechanism to regulate the content of television channels.
Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi sent notices to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and the Law and Justice Ministry to respond to the PIL that alleges that misleading and superstitious contents are being broadcast by channels, and that there is a need for a regulatory body to oversee it. (ANI)